And my first thought was "Thank GOD women don't have to dress like that anymore".

Some of you ladies may enjoy skirts and even the more complicated clothes like they're wearing, but I am grateful we finally can wear pants all the time without being hassled about it. Also I'ma let you finish, but cargo pants are the best pants of all time. Of ALL TIME.

The first half isn't quite accurate, though the last half is. Cars were commercialized by the start this time period, though restricted to a small aprt of society, and the latter part of it would coincide with cars becoming much more accessible and the introduction of the Model T.

ladyfortuna:And my first thought was "Thank GOD women don't have to dress like that anymore".

Some of you ladies may enjoy skirts and even the more complicated clothes like they're wearing, but I am grateful we finally can wear pants all the time without being hassled about it. Also I'ma let you finish, but cargo pants are the best pants of all time. Of ALL TIME.

/end Kanye West moment//end the purse oppression!

I was just thinking I this week how wonderful it is to be able to wear dresses. So much more comfortable than pants and cheaper too.

Yes: apart from the fact of not covering every part of your body and face except for your eyes, European women's dresses from 100 years ago are exactly like burkas, the defining feature of which is that they cover every part of the body except for the eyes. These two unlike things are entirely similar.

No matter, I'm sure there's some other white liberal douchebag out there who can explain why modest dress among Western women is pretty much the same as being veiled head to toe -- not that there's anything wrong with being veiled head to toe, you Islamaphobic racist, since it frees Muslim women from the patriarchal consumerist male gaze (except of course that the same liberal douchebag likes to laugh about modest dress on Western women: what are they, Amish? Mormon? or who gives a f*ck, really, as long as we know that because they are white and will vote for Romney and we can safely mock them.) Basically all you really need to know is that if you're being modest for God, you're a reactionary fundamentalist idiot, but if you're being modest for Allah, you're a vital part of our nation's diversity. Or something like that.

Grables'Daughter: If you like the clothes from that era, you should check out some of the photographs from the 1906 SF earthquake & fire. It's almost surreal seeing people dressed like that viewing smoking ruins.

I downloaded some vintage blue movies from not too long after the oughts (a temporary fascination). Some of the lesbian stuff is actually adorable. Like two puppies playing. The rest is just proof that there's absolutely nothing new under the sun.